Đề thi tuyển sinh đại học hệ văn bằng 2 tiếng anh

TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC KINH TẾ QUỐC DÂN
Khoa Ngoại Ngữ Kinh tế
Đề thi tuyển sinh Đại học hệ Văn bằng II
MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH (Đề 2)
Thời gian: 120 phút
PAPER 1: READING COMPREHENSION (55 points)
Section A: Choose the given word or phrase which best completes each sentence
below (15 points)
perfomance
cooking
provide
hotter
discovered
seen
although
lend
paid
whom
dispite
of
would
astonished
will
the
publication
invented
whose
sleeping
a
for
resulted

hottest
from
teaching
with
teach
astonishing
caused
1. It began to rain while we were __________soundly.
2. __________ there is not enough information on the effects of smoke in the atmosphere,
doctors have proved that air pollution causes lung diseases.
3. Teachers may be used to __________large classes and may not know how to get the best
results from small classes.
4. If you cannot afford to buy a house, you can get a bank to _________you most of the money
to buy one.
5. My classmate, __________ father has been in hospital for a month, looked depressed this
morning.
6. I wish I had ___________more attention to the traffic lights.
7. That old woman asked me__________a coin but I didn’t have any.
8. What a pity you didn’t go to the party. If you had come, it _________have been more fun.
9. Penicillin was ___________by Alexander Fleming.
10. June and July, which month is___________?
11. The Philippines is______________group of islands.
12. The bad weather ___________in the plane being delayed.
13. After next week, I’ll be completely free _____________all my worries.
14. She has really very fast. She has made _____________progress.
15. We were lucky to get tickets for the first __________of the new opera.
Section B: Read the following passages and answer the questions below (30 points)
Passage 1:
Smallpox was the first widespread disease to be eliminated by human intervention. In May
1966, the World Health organization (WHO), an agency of the United Nations , was authorized to

initiate a global campaign to eradicate smallox. The goal was to eliminate the disease in one decade.
At the time, the disease posed a serious threat to people in more than thirty nations. Because similar
projects for malaria and yellow fever had failed, few believed that smallpox could actually be
eradicated, but eleven years after the initial organization of the campaign, no cases were reported in
the field.
The strategy was not only to provide mass caccinations but also to isolate patients with active
smallpox in order to contain the spread of the disease and to break the chain of human transmission.
Rewards for reporting smallpox assisted in motivating people to aid health workers. One by one,
each smallpox victim was sought out, removed from contact with others, and treated. At the same
time, the entire village where the victim had lived was vaccinated.
But April of 1978, WHO officials annonounced that they had isolated the last known case of
the disease, but health workers continued to search for new cases for two additional years to be
completely sur. In May, 1980, a formal statement was made to the global community. Today,
smallpox is no longer a threat to humanity. Routine vaccinations have been stopped worldwide.
1. What do the letters WHO stand for?
2. What was the goal of the campaign againts smallpox?
3. According to the passage, what were the strategies used to eliminate the spread of
smallpox?
4. How were people motivated to help the health workers?
5. When was the formal annoucement made that smallpox had been eradicated?
Passage 2:
It was Monday morning. Edna left home early that day because she was going to start work
at an office in the city. She was only sixteen and this was her first job. There were a lot of people at
the bus-stop and she nearly took a taxi that was passing; but afterwards she was glad that she waited
for the bus. The traffic was so dense that even if she had taken a taxi, she would not have arrived
much earlier. As it was, she was only a few minutes late.
She caught the lift up to the eighth floor and went along to the office where she had been
interviewed by Mr. Crump two weeks before. This was the man she was going to work for. She
tapped on the door and waited, but there was no reply. Just then she heard the sound of someone’s
voice from the next office. She opened the door and looked in. There was Mr. Crump speaking to the

people in the office in an angry voice. The he turned round and left the room.
Later in the day, Edna found out what had happened. Apparently, Mr. Crump came to the
office as a rule about nine thirty, because he lived along way out in the country and came up by train
everyday. That morning, however, he happened to catch an earlier train and when he arrived in the
office, not a single person was working. They were all standing around, smoking, chatting and
telling jokes.
1. Why was Edna glad that she did not take a taxi?
2. Who was Mr. Crump?
3. Why did Edna open the door of the next office?
4. What time did Mr. Crump usually arrive?
5. What did Mr. Crump see when he arrived that morning?
Passage 3:
At two o’clock une very hot August Sunday, Mrs. Pendlebury sat down in the sitting room to
write to her son Frank, who lived in Australia. By four o’clock she had written, “Dear Frank, thank
you for your last letter, sorry I have been so long replying, only” – and that was all. Only what? How
did she explain five months ‘ cilence? She hadn’t been ill. She hadn’t been what you could call busy.
Nothing had happened to write to Australia about, that was the trouble. It could be inculting and
childish.
She’s been invited so many times to go and see all Frank’s family. Every year for the last ten years
since he started making money out of his farm, Frank had invited her to visit them in Australia, all
expenses paid, for as long as she chose to stay. Always she replied “we’ll see”. But it never went
further.
Sometimes Mrs. Pendlebury wondered if the people in the colored photographs they kept
sending existed at all. Was that Frank, now quite heavier than that confident-looking boy of nineteen
who had gone out to Australia so long ago? And his wife, Veronica, who had long rad hair and a
permanent smile – who was she? Mrs. Pendlebury had studied her protographs extremely closely and
still she could get no idea. Her letters were warm and friendly enough but they were only words. You
couldn’t tell from letters, Mrs. Pendlebury thought. Only her grandchildren’s little messages had any
real value. Surprisingly, the boy Paul, who was ten, was a good writer. She enjoyed his little letters
and it made her sad to think he would never know from her few words how pleased she was. What a

waste! There lovely grandchildren growing up not even know their grandmother.
1. Why was Mrs. Pendlebury find it difficult to write to her son, Frank?
2. Who old was Frank when he left for Australia?
3. What did Mrs. Pendlebury think about her daughter-in-law’s letters?
4. What did she feel when she looked at photographs of Frank and his family?
5. What was the waste that Mrs. Pendlebury mentioned at the end of the passage?
Passage 4:
People commonly complain that they never have enough time to accomplish tasks. The hours
and minutes seem to slip away before many planned chores have been done. According to time
management experts, the main reason for this is that most people fail to set priorities about what to
do first. As a result, they get tied down by trivial, time consuming matters and never complete the
important ones.
One simple solution that are often used by those at the top is to keep lists of tasks to be
accomplished daily. These lists order jobs from the most essential to the least essential and are
checked regularly through the day in order to assess progress. This is not only an effective way to
manage time, but also it serves to give individuals a much deserved sense of satisfaction over their
achievements. People who do not keep lists often face the end of the work day with uncertainty over
the significance of their accomplishments, which over time can contribute to serious problems in
mental and physical health.
What do many people complain about?
Why does this happen?
How do seccessful people keep checking the progress of daily tasks?
What are the advantages of this method?
What can uncertainty over the significance of accomplishment result in?
Section C: Choose the best words or word groups to fill in the blanks (10 points)
Money is used for buying or (1)____________goods, for measuring value and for storing wealth.
Almost avery society now has a money economy based on coins and paper notes of one kind or
another. (2)_____________, this has not always been true. In primitive (3)_____________, a
system of barter was used. (4)____________ was a system of direct (5)____________of goods.
People could exchange a sheep, for exemple for anything in the market-place that they considered to

be of (6)___________value. Barter, however, was a very unsatisfactory system because people’s
precise needs (7)___________coincided. People needed a more practical system of exchange, and
various money system developed based on goods (8)___________the members of a society
recognized as having values. Cattle, gran, teeth, shells, feathers, skulls, salt, elephant tusks and
tobacco have all been (9)___________. Precious metals gradually took (10)_________ because,
when made into coins, they were portable, durable, recognizable and divisible into larger and smaller
units of value.

PAPER II: WRITING (45 points)
Seation A: Use the words below to complete sentences (15 points)
1. People / prefer / watch / TV / days / listen / radio.
2. What / prevent / come / earlier?
3. Take / me / fifteen / minute / go / school / bike / every day.
4. In / opinition / violent film / should / not / show.
5. If / the customers / not / complain / yesterday / nothing / do.
6. I / rather / at home / go / walk.
7. There / much / noise / I could / sleep.
8. When / you / see / her / play / piano?
9. Brother / often / spend / spare time / read / book / watch / TV.
10. You / had better / that tooth / pull / out.
Section B: Rewrite the folliwing sentences without changing the meanings (15 points)

1. Although both his legs were broken in the crash, he managed to get out of the car before it
exploded.
Despite his
2. We didn’t go on holiday because we didn’t have enough money.
If we
3. He was annoyed because his secretary came late to work.
He objected
4. Have you got a cheaper carpet than this?

Is this
5. John only understood very little of what the teacher said .
John could hardly
6. After fighting the fire for twelve hours, the firemen succeeded in putting it out.
The fireme managed
7. She started working as a secretary five year ago.
She has
8. What a pity you failed your driving test!
I wish
9. Although he had a good salary, he was unhappy in his job.
In spite of
10. How long is it since they bought their house?
When
Section C: Translation (15 points)
Translate the following sentences into English:
1. Sếp của tôi đủ thông minh để nhanh chóng tìm ra giải pháp cho vấn đề đó.
2. Giá như anh đến sớm hơn nửa giờ, chúng ta sẽ không bị nhỡ chuyến tàu này.
3. Tôi và bố tôi có nhiều sở thích và mối quan tâm chung.
4. John đã không cắt tóc trong sáu tháng.
5. Chẳng còn gì ăn trong tủ lạnh thế nên chúng ta phải đi mua thêm thức ăn thôi.
Translate the following sentences into Vietnamese:
1. The most serious problem of modern society is that man is destroying the earth’s natural
resources and transforming huge areas into waste land.
2. In England, the risk of burglary is ten times higher in city areas that that in rural areas.
3. In the past, discrimination against women in business, the requirements of caring for
families, and lack of formal business training kept the number of manageresses small.
4. The Olypic Games are held every four years in a selected country, and they are open to
athletes of all nations.
5. Anyone who lives in a city is aware of the increasing number of vehicles on the road and the
kinds of problems which it creates such as traffic jams, air pollution and longer commuting

periods.